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Lensahn (1901) |
Later names: |
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Nohab |
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Nohab |
Builder: |
Howaldtswerke Kiel, Germany |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Keel Laid: |
N/A |
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Year Built: |
1901 |
Launched: |
June 10, 1901 |
Type: |
Yacht |
Completed: |
N/A |
Fate: |
Sank in 1934 while at anchor in Tampa, Florida. Raised and towed
15 nautical miles west of Egmont Key, Florida and scuttled. |
Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
146' 3" |
Engines: |
Triple expansion |
Beam: |
25' 8" |
Boilers: |
N/A |
Draft: |
12' 8" (depth) |
Shafts: |
2 |
Gross Tons: |
427 |
HP: |
86 (NHP) |
Crew: |
N/A |
Speed: |
N/A |
Notes: |
Designed by J. Koch and built for Friedrich August, Herzog von Oldenburg (Duke of Oldenburg). |
The ship may have been used as a hospital ship during the Great War. |
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Following the war was sold to a Swedish business man and renamed Nohab. |
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Sold to New York owners Charles A. Ogren and D. R. Haimes in the early 1920's who intended to use her for booze cruises between Miami and the Bahamas. |
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Sold to A. W. Ryerson, Nassau, Bahamas around 1925 and moved to Miami, Florida. |
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Sold at auction in June of 1926. |
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Sept. 18, 1926 was sunk at Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida during a hurricane, the captain, J. H. Ehrman and five or six crewmen were lost with the ship. |
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Raised and laid up. |
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Sold around 1928, towed to Tampa for refit (which never happened). |
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Sank at anchor in Tampa 1934, raised and towed into the Gulf of Mexico and scuttled. |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Feb. 21, 2013 |